| 书目名称 | The Politics and History of AIDS Treatment in Brazil | | 编辑 | Amy Nunn | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Foreword by Fernando Cardoso, former president of Brazil.Includes 91 interviews with experts on the development of AIDS policy in Brazil, including politicians, AIDS activists and people living with A | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Brazil’s public policy response to the AIDS epidemic preceded those of many developing countries. During my tenure as President, in 1996, Brazil adopted a law guaranteeing free and universal access to AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. Brazil became the first developing country to provide publicly-financed AIDS treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. We now have one of the world’s most successful AIDS programs that is considered a model for other dev- oping countries. Today, 185,000 people receive life-saving AIDS cocktails in Brazil, and thousands of lives have been saved. But this was not an easy battle. There were many challenges along the way. Twenty years ago, Brazil’s achie- ments today might have seemed impossible. During the 1980s, in Brazil, as elsewhere, there was overwhelming stigma associated with AIDS; people living with HIV often lost their jobs and died quickly before the advent of life-saving antiretroviral drugs. Brazil’s AIDS movement was extraordinarily important in promoting progressive AIDS policies; associations of people living with HIV were the first to denounce pervasive AIDS-related discri- nation and called public attention to the | | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | | 关键词 | AIDS; Brazil; HIV; HIV/AIDS; Latin America; Public Health; School of Public Health; Tod; developing world; ep | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09618-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-1876-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-09618-6 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2009 |
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